Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
63(6), P. 1734 - 1744
Published: March 13, 2023
Meaningful
exploration
of
the
chemical
space
druglike
molecules
in
drug
design
is
a
highly
challenging
task
due
to
combinatorial
explosion
possible
modifications
molecules.
In
this
work,
we
address
problem
with
transformer
models,
type
machine
learning
(ML)
model
originally
developed
for
translation.
By
training
models
on
pairs
similar
bioactive
from
public
ChEMBL
data
set,
enable
them
learn
medicinal-chemistry-meaningful,
context-dependent
transformations
molecules,
including
those
absent
set.
retrospective
analysis
performance
subsets
ligands
binding
COX2,
DRD2,
or
HERG
protein
targets,
demonstrate
that
can
generate
structures
identical
most
active
ligands,
despite
having
not
seen
any
against
corresponding
target
during
training.
Our
work
demonstrates
human
experts
working
hit
expansion
easily
and
quickly
employ
translate
texts
one
natural
language
another,
"translate"
known
given
novel
same
target.
Cell Reports Medicine,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
3(12), P. 100794 - 100794
Published: Oct. 27, 2022
Recent
advances
and
accomplishments
of
artificial
intelligence
(AI)
deep
generative
models
have
established
their
usefulness
in
medicinal
applications,
especially
drug
discovery
development.
To
correctly
apply
AI,
the
developer
user
face
questions
such
as
which
protocols
to
consider,
factors
scrutinize,
how
can
integrate
relevant
disciplines.
This
review
summarizes
classical
newly
developed
AI
approaches,
providing
an
updated
accessible
guide
broad
computational
development
community.
We
introduce
from
different
standpoints
describe
theoretical
frameworks
for
representing
chemical
biological
structures
applications.
discuss
data
technical
challenges
highlight
future
directions
multimodal
accelerating
discovery.
Chemical Science,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
13(9), P. 2701 - 2713
Published: Jan. 1, 2022
The
goal
of
structure-based
drug
discovery
is
to
find
small
molecules
that
bind
a
given
target
protein.
Deep
learning
has
been
used
generate
drug-like
with
certain
cheminformatic
properties,
but
not
yet
applied
generating
3D
predicted
proteins
by
sampling
the
conditional
distribution
protein-ligand
binding
interactions.
In
this
work,
we
describe
for
first
time
deep
system
molecular
structures
conditioned
on
receptor
site.
We
approach
problem
using
variational
autoencoder
trained
an
atomic
density
grid
representation
cross-docked
structures.
apply
atom
fitting
and
bond
inference
procedures
construct
valid
conformations
from
generated
densities.
evaluate
properties
demonstrate
they
change
significantly
when
mutated
receptors.
also
explore
latent
space
learned
our
generative
model
interpolation
techniques.
This
work
opens
door
end-to-end
prediction
stable
bioactive
protein
learning.
Nature Machine Intelligence,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
6(4), P. 417 - 427
Published: April 11, 2024
Abstract
Fragment-based
drug
discovery
has
been
an
effective
paradigm
in
early-stage
development.
An
open
challenge
this
area
is
designing
linkers
between
disconnected
molecular
fragments
of
interest
to
obtain
chemically
relevant
candidate
molecules.
In
work,
we
propose
DiffLinker,
E(3)-equivariant
three-dimensional
conditional
diffusion
model
for
linker
design.
Given
a
set
fragments,
our
places
missing
atoms
and
designs
molecule
incorporating
all
the
initial
fragments.
Unlike
previous
approaches
that
are
only
able
connect
pairs
method
can
link
arbitrary
number
Additionally,
automatically
determines
its
attachment
points
input
We
demonstrate
DiffLinker
outperforms
other
methods
on
standard
datasets,
generating
more
diverse
synthetically
accessible
experimentally
test
real-world
applications,
showing
it
successfully
generate
valid
conditioned
target
protein
pockets.
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
64(6), P. 1794 - 1805
Published: March 14, 2024
As
the
number
of
determined
and
predicted
protein
structures
size
druglike
'make-on-demand'
libraries
soar,
time-consuming
nature
structure-based
computer-aided
drug
design
calls
for
innovative
computational
algorithms.
Nature Communications,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
15(1)
Published: March 27, 2024
Abstract
Deep
generative
modeling
has
a
strong
potential
to
accelerate
drug
design.
However,
existing
models
often
face
challenges
in
generalization
due
limited
data,
leading
less
innovative
designs
with
unfavorable
interactions
for
unseen
target
proteins.
To
address
these
issues,
we
propose
an
interaction-aware
3D
molecular
framework
that
enables
interaction-guided
design
inside
binding
pockets.
By
leveraging
universal
patterns
of
protein-ligand
as
prior
knowledge,
our
model
can
achieve
high
generalizability
experimental
data.
Its
performance
been
comprehensively
assessed
by
analyzing
generated
ligands
targets
terms
pose
stability,
affinity,
geometric
patterns,
diversity,
and
novelty.
Moreover,
the
effective
mutant-selective
inhibitors
demonstrates
applicability
approach
structure-based
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
65(13), P. 9478 - 9492
Published: June 17, 2022
Deep
learning
(DL)-based
de
novo
molecular
design
has
recently
gained
considerable
traction.
Many
DL-based
generative
models
have
been
successfully
developed
to
novel
molecules,
but
most
of
them
are
ligand-centric
and
the
role
3D
geometries
target
binding
pockets
in
generation
not
well-exploited.
Here,
we
proposed
a
new
3D-based
model
called
RELATION.
In
RELATION
model,
BiTL
algorithm
was
specifically
designed
extract
transfer
desired
geometric
features
protein-ligand
complexes
latent
space
for
generation.
The
pharmacophore
conditioning
docking-based
Bayesian
sampling
were
applied
efficiently
navigate
vast
chemical
molecules
with
properties
features.
As
proof
concept,
used
inhibitors
two
targets,
AKT1
CDK2.
calculation
results
demonstrated
that
could
generate
favorable
affinity
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
62(10), P. 2269 - 2279
Published: May 11, 2022
A
persistent
goal
for
de
novo
drug
design
is
to
generate
novel
chemical
compounds
with
desirable
properties
in
a
labor-,
time-,
and
cost-efficient
manner.
Deep
generative
models
provide
alternative
routes
this
goal.
Numerous
model
architectures
optimization
strategies
have
been
explored
recent
years,
most
of
which
developed
two-dimensional
molecular
structures.
Some
aiming
at
three-dimensional
(3D)
molecule
generation
also
proposed,
gaining
attention
their
unique
advantages
potential
directly
drug-like
molecules
target-conditioning
This
review
highlights
current
developments
3D
combined
deep
learning
discusses
future
directions
design.